Luxury Abounds in Books on Vuitton, Savile Row, Extreme Golf, Zeffirelli
The auditorium of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium. The photograph is included in the lavish book "Palaces of Music: Opera Houses of Europe" by Ahmet Ertug, with text by Michael Forsyth. Photographer: Ahmet Ertug via Bloomberg
The cover jacket of "Bespoke: The Men's Style of Savile Row" by James Sherwood. Source: Rizzoli via Bloomberg
The auditorium viewed from the upper circle of the Palau de la Musica Catalana, Barcelona, Spain. Photographer: Ahmet Ertug via Bloomberg
The auditorium seen from the stage of the Teatro Communale, Bologna, Italy. The photograph is included in the lavish book "Palaces of Music: Opera Houses of Europe" by Ahmet Ertug, with text by Michael Forsyth. Photographer: Ahmet Ertug via Bloomberg
The cover jacket of "Leonard Bernstein at Work: His Final Years, 1984-1990." The book showcases Steve J. Sherman?s black-and-white photographs. Source: Amadeus Press via Bloomberg
The cover jacket of "Living Architecture: Greatest American Houses of the 20th Century" by Dominique Browning and Lucy Gilmour. Source: Assouline via Bloomberg
In March 1905, Georges Vuitton dared escape artist Harry Houdini to pit his skill against a handmade trunk bearing the Vuitton family name.
“Sir, I take the liberty of challenging you,” he wrote in a newspaper ad, “to get out of a BOX MADE BY ME, NAILED SHUT after you get in by MY STAFF, and tied with ropes.” Houdini doesn’t seem to have taken up the offer, aware, no doubt, that the LV brand stood for goods even tougher than he.
“Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks” (Abrams) is as luxe and quirky as the luggage produced by the house since 1854, when Louis Vuitton opened his shop on the rue Scribe in Paris. Here are the trunk custom made to transport diva Lily Pons’s 36 pairs of shoes and a black trunk emblazoned with a life-size penguin ordered by the avant-garde director Robert Wilson.
There’s even a trunk made expressly to carry a Sony PlayStation 3 and all its accoutrements.
Bespoke!
And here is Michael Caine, Alfie himself, in a sleek black double-breasted suit tailored for him by Douglas Hayward.
The photo is a standout in “Bespoke: The Men’s Style of Savile Row” (Rizzoli). In a changing fashion world where “custom” fittings are done by computer, it’s practically nostalgic to revisit the likes of Gieves & Hawkes and a time when hunting outfits included a top hat and silk cravat. Jude Law knows (he’s here, in Kilgour), as does David Beckham (in Timothy Everest).
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